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English vocab #1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allocation | The act of setting apart for a purpose or specific plan, designate |
| Ascetic | A person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons. |
| Beguile | To influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude; to take away from by cheating or deceiving |
| Crass | Without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid |
| Defray | To bear or pay all or part of (the costs, expenses, etc.) |
| Dint | Force; power. A dent |
| Enjoin | To prescribe (a course of action) with authority or emphasis |
| Envoy | A diplomatic agent; any accredited messenger or representative |
| Interloper | To intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license; to thrust oneself into the affairs of others. |
| Vicarious | Performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another. Taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute. Felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others. |
| Admonish | To caution, advise, or counsel against something; to reprove or scold, especially in a mild and good-willed manner. |
| Akimbo | With hand on hip and elbow bent outward |
| Lassitude | Weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness; languor; a condition of indolent indifference |
| Licentious | Sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd; unrestrained by law or general morality; lawless; immoral. |
| Muse | (verb) To think or meditate in silence, as on some subject; (noun) any of a number of sister goddesses. |
| Pecuniary | Of or involving money; involving a money penalty or fine. |
| Plight | To pledge or promise |
| Presumptuous | Too bold or forward; showing overconfidence; arrogance |
| Subversive | Tending or seeking to overthrow or destroy |
| Vacuous | Having or showing lack of intelligence, interest, or thought; empty of matter. |
| Avocation | Something one does in addition to regular work and usually for pleasure; hobby. |
| Capricious | Tending to change abruptly and without apparent reason |
| Disparity | Inequality or difference as in rank, amount, or quality; unlikeness. |
| Efficacy | Power to produce effects of intended results. |
| Epistle | A letter especially a long long formal instructive letter; written communication. |
| Hospice | A place of shelter for travelers, especially such a shelter maintained by monks. |
| Impetus | The force with which a body moves against resistance; anything that stimulates activity. |
| Moribund | Dying; coming to an end; having little or no vital force left. |
| Reticent | Habitually silent or uncommunicative; disinclined to speak readily. |
| Vacillate | To say to and fro; fluctuate or oscillate. |
| Akin | Similar or closely related to something; related by blood. |
| Corroborate | To give or represent evidence of the truth of something. |
| Inexorable | Unyielding; unalterable; relentless. |
| Insipid | Without distinctive or stimulating qualities; lacking taste. |
| Nefarious | Extremely wicked or villainous. |
| Physiognomy | The outward (facial) appearance of anything, taken as offering some insight into its character. |
| Retinue | A body of attendants upon an important person. |
| Suppliant | Asking humbly and earnestly; as words, actions. |
| Tedium | The quality or state of being wearisome; boredom. |
| Torrid | Subject to parching or burning heat, especially of the sun. |
| Affront | Deliberate act or display of disrespect; insult. |
| Blasé | Indifferent to or bored with life; apathetic to pleasure as a result of excessive indulgences. |
| Cajole | To persuade by flattery or promises. |
| Choleric | Extremely irritable or easily angered. |
| Encumber | Burden or weigh down; to hinder. |
| Feckless | Lacking purpose or vitality, weak, ineffective, irresponsible |
| Impasse | A road or passage having no exit, dead end; a position or situation from which there is no escape. |
| Indolent | Disinclined to work, habitually lazy. |
| Lugubrious | Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner. |
| Ribald | Vulgar or indecent in language or speech; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent. |
| Adulation | Excessive praise, flattery, or admiration. |
| Censure | An expression of blame or disapproval. |
| Dissemble | To give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or the real nature of. |
| Dissimulation | The act or process of making or becoming dissimilar; the act of deceiving. |
| Droll | Having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality. |
| Expectorate | To eject from the mouth; spit. |
| Palpate | To examine or explore by touching, especially for the purpose of diagnosing a disease or illness. |
| Peremptory | Putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay. |
| Pusillanimous | Lacking courage and resolution; cowardly, faint-hearted, timid. |
| Surfeit | To feed or supply to fullness; to suffer form the effects of overindulgence in eating or drinking. |
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